Details of deals already awarded also revealed

The hospitals programme that will see 40 new facilities built by 2030 has announced details of an initial 拢2.5bn of work about to go up for grabs.

The New Hospital Programme has unveiled its , which includes 11 deals that are at the market engagement stage or will be later this year.

This includes an alliance framework worth more than 拢1bn that will be used to develop and build the eight hospitals known as 鈥減athfinders鈥 that will help shape how the remaining facilities are delivered.

These hospitals are St Helier, Hillingdon and Whipps Cross hospitals in London, Princess Alexandra Hospital in Essex, Watford General, Leicester General and Royal Infirmary hospitals, Leeds General Infirmary, and North Manchester Public Hospital.

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Other deals include the 拢300m job to build a new Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital and a number of professional services deals worth hundreds of millions of pounds.

In a LinkedIn post Emma-Jane Houghton, the project鈥檚 commercial director, said: 鈥淲e鈥檝e spoken to many of you since we launched our market engagement campaign last summer and your energy and ideas have been outstanding.

鈥淲e are leading the way and championing the Construction Playbook policies as a core part of who we are and what we do. These opportunities represent some of the first steps in the biggest hospital building programme in a generation.鈥

has also revealed the details of seven deals worth up to 拢46m. These include a 拢10m deal naming Mott MacDonald as interim delivery partner and a 拢25m contract with KPMG to be interim commercial partner.